LifeCare Chiropractic

The Best Chiropractic Care in Mesa, Arizona

Heart Disease, Stroke, Blood Pressure Tips

Mesa AZ Chiropractor Explains Importance of Fish Oil

by

FISH OILS NOT EFFECTIVE FOR PREVENTING HEART DEATHS.  Sounds disappointing, huh?  And I’m sure this is what we’ll be hearing from the media and doctors everywhere.  The reality is that 1 gram of fish oils (considered a low dose) given for a year, is not effective at lowering the rates of sudden cardiac death in patients who already had a heart attack.  Duh!!  I’ll be the first to admit that lifestyle changes and supplementation are powerful tools (actually..THE most powerful tools) for managing and avoiding chronic disease.  But there are limits.  They are NOT drugs and do NOT interfere with normal physiological processes.  The idea of using healthy fats to lower our risk of cardiac disease is a process that occurs over years, not a single year, at low dose, in a population that has already made the wrong choices.  So long as we continue to do studies on natural approaches and natural products as if they were pharmaceutical drugs that are specifically selected for their strong and rapid ability to interfere with the way our body works, the general consensus from the uneducated will be that “that stuff doesn’t work.” Read More…

 

Migraine Doctor Mesa AZ Residents Trust

by

MIGRAINE SUFFERERS BEWARE NEW PREVENTATIVE APPROACH.  You’ve all read me ranting and raving about how we are completely missing the boat on treatment of migraines.  That migraineuers have an increased risk of heart disease and stroke because the problem is NOT in the brain, but it is in the body.  It is the body screaming that something is wrong and sufferers bodies are using the brain to get the owner’s attention.  Lifestyle needs to be fixed.  Getting out processed foods, increasing intake of healthier fats, exercise, avoidance of as many chemicals as possible, stress management.  This is the approach that is required.  It’s NOT optional!  If this approach is not taken, the migraine patient is going to die an early death.  It’s that serious.  The problem is that mainstream medicine still thinks treatment “success” is gauged by getting rid of the headache via medication.  Now it’s getting worse.  Beta blockers are well known to increase the risk of stroke and diabetes, so we’re just going to try to use them as “prevention” in patients suffering with migraines.  UGH! Read More…

Ibuprofen Increases Stroke Risk

by

Ibuprofen Increases Stroke Risk

COMMON OVER THE COUNTER DRUG FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN ANYONE THINKS.  Your back or neck are a little sore after doing some yardwork this weekend.  Just pop a few ibuprofen and everything will be fine.  Better yet, saunter on over to the neighbor who had back surgery a few months ago and borrow one of his prescription strength ones.  They’re safe, right?  Sure, they’ve been strongly associated with liver problems, kidney problems, joint problems and recently heart attacks.  But my brains’ still safe, right?  Not even close.  Even the use of ibuprofen under 1200 mg is associated with a 50% greater risk of stroke in this study.  The numbers just get worse from there.  This is NOT a benign class of drugs and it remains frustrating when opponents of chiropractic care say that chiropractic care is “dangerous” and not worth the “risk.”  The risk of chiropractic vs common treatments like NSAIDs is like comparing the person on the ground watching the skydiver attempt to land without a parachute.  And let’s not even talk about surgical risks!  So, next time you consider just popping that ibuprofen, maybe you should reconsider a call to your chiropractor instead…

See more

 

 

Afib Risk and Ibuprofen

by

ANOTHER BAD EFFECTS OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES??  Is it just me, or is the list of side effects of NSAIDs getting longer and longer?  And we really all have Merck and Vioxx to thank for this direction of the research after well over 100,000 cardiovascular events were estimated to have occurred as a result of the new blockbuster drug when it was released.

As way of comparison, does chiropractic care increase the risk of atrial fib, chondrocyte death, heart attack, kidney dysfunction, liver dysfunction or bleeding ulcers?  Funny that adjusting ONLY (which would not include all of the soft tissue work, stretching, lifestyle changes and use of Graston that we do in the office) fares just as well for most conditions as this class of drugs but a handful of misguided critics still feel that chiropractic care is “not worth the risk”…

See more

 

Why Exercise is Important – Mesa AZ Back Pain Doctor

by

IF YOU CAN’T EXERCISE THIS MUCH, JUST HANG IT UP NOW….

Gotta love us lazy humans.  Just how little exercise, how little we have to exert and how infrequent do we have to exercise and still get a benefit?

Not that I advocate hanging out of the bottom of the bell curve, but in this study participants did short bursts on an exercise bike.

How long?

30 seconds each.

Just how many?

4-6 sets.

How many days per week?

3.

For those of you who excel at math, this is 9 minutes per week.

9 measly minutes.  The improvements were actually quite dramatic.  The research is continuing to disprove the “50 minute aerobic” model of exercise and moving towards a short-burst type of style.

I definitely think this is more of what our bodies were designed for.  Seriously…name an animal our ancestors would have pursued for 45 minutes or an animal we would’ve evaded at a sprint for 45 minutes.  Think you could go 45 mins running from a Sabre toothed tiger or a bear?  Think you could track an antelope for 45 minutes?

Read article here

Proton-Pump Inhibitors and Heart Disease

by

3RD LEADING CLASS OF MEDICATION LINKED TO HEART DISEASE?

Given my understanding of human physiology, I consider the act of digestion and assimilation of nutrients to be one of the most important things that our bodies do.  Off the top of my head, I can list at least 10 things that stomach acid is absolutely essential for.  In other words–it’s REALLY important.  Then consider the fact that age and stress begins to drastically lower our stomach’s production of acid.  With this fact in mind, one would begin to ask how a class of drug that further lowers an already too little production of acid could hold the #3 spot in drug use.  A very good question and one that I can’t really answer because it doesn’t make sense if one understands how digestion works.  The proton pump inhibitors (names like Prilosec, Nexium, Aciphex, Protonix) shut down digestion.  Because of this, they have been linked to osteoporosis, liver problems, weakening of the lining of the gut, C. difficile infections and now (as if the list already wasn’t bad enough), heart disease.   Given how incredibly rare making TOO much stomach acid is, one should ask what is the purpose of this med being used in patients.  The only viable use is if someone has a bleeding ulcer, in which case this class of drugs will save a life.  Ironically, most people given PPIs are actually making too LITTLE stomach acid and supporting digestion (apple cider vinegar, digestive enzymes, stress mang’t) goes a long way towards eliminating symptoms.

see more

Read article here

Short Burst Aerobic – Mesa AZ Stem Cell Chiropractic

by

IF YOU CAN’T EXERCISE THIS MUCH, JUST HANG IT UP NOW….Gotta love us lazy humans.  Just how little exercise, how little we have to exert and how infrequent do we have to exercise and still get a benefit.  Not that I advocate hanging out of the bottom of the bell curve, but in this study participants bursts on an exercise bike.  How long?  30 seconds each.  Just how many?  4-6 sets.  How many days per week?  3.  Do the math.  This is 9 minutes per week.  9 measly minutes.  The improvements were actually quite dramatic.  The research is continuing to disprove the “50 minute aerobic” model of exercise and moving towards a short-burst type of style.  I definitely think this is more of what our bodies were designed for.  Seriously…name an animal our ancestors would have pursued for 45 minutes or an animal we would’ve evaded at a sprint for 45 minutes.  Think you could go 45 mins running from a sabre toothed tiger or a bear?  Think you could track an antelope for 45 minutes? Read More…

James Bogash, DC

What to do Before Your Cardiac Procedure – Mesa AZ Chiropractor

by

The CT scans to look at the blood vessels of the heart have come a long way since being first introduced.  While this procedure is not good to screen everyone in the general public just to satisfy a curiosity of how your coronary blood vessels look, when used in patients at intermediate risk and having chest pain, with a high degree of accuracy it can tell whether or not an invasive procedure is needed.  Sounds like a pretty simple decision to me.

Read more